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razaina Sep 11, 2011

It's about 2 years I'm using haXe. I'm not a beginner but I still have constantly a lot of stuff to learn.haXe is a powerful language which provides many features, and gives to developers a tool to create websites, and applications. Thanks to its cross-platform features, it brings ease to target different platforms using a single unified programming language.In this book, Benjamin Dasnois made a great job of introducing the specifics of the language.The book is really easy to read, and at first sight, it is aimed for beginners, but not only because I was surprised to learn stuff I never tried to do before, and to reinforce my knowledges in some area like how different applications can communicate between each other (Chapter 7 : Communication between haXe programs).The chapters of the book are cleverly well structured.The "Time for action" heading followed by the "What just happened ?" make this book so enjoyable to read.Like a recipe, you just have to follow instructions and then you can ta(e)ste it. The second heading gives clear explanations about how tasks or instructions work.The only negative for this book to me is that C++ which is a haXe target that I didn't experimented yet, isn't covered, so I expected to read some stuff about it.If you're looking for a comprehensive introduction to what haXe is all about, or if you're a beginner or an intermediate haXe developer who want to fill gaps in your knowledge, I really would recommend buying this book.Anyway, subscribe to the haXe mailing list and stay tuned for all the new features the language is offering.

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Amazon Customer Oct 26, 2011

Writing a book about haxe seems to me extremely difficult because of the language multi platform nature, constant improvement process and a variety of projects related to the haxe. And I'm glad that Benjamin Dasnois started this great work of collection knowledge about haxe in a book format. This is the first edition and certainly there are a number of things I would suggest to improve.My main complaint is to extreme brevity. Of course a small size is good for a book, but text often doesn't explain why things are so as they are, only enlists strict facts about the language without discussion, gets you know about alternatives or providing a list of advantages and disadvantages. OOP concepts definitions from my point of view are currently poor and I'm sure that it should be said in preface that a reader must be familiar with at least one OOP language to follow the author's ideas easily.The other thing I was very disappointed about is a low quality of the code snippets. Examples contain dead code, number of compile errors, absence of single code style and bad indentation. Also almost everywhere in the book single line comments spread across several lines and that produces errors after copying code into a text editor. As a result there's a strong feeling of incompleteness and mediocrity. Hope it will be corrected as soon as possible.In my opinion there are still enough unexposed places in the book without further references (e.g. how I can make types comparable, what is the range of integer, performance discussion and targets nuances). Some links to the documentation or even well-known discussions in mailing lists would be very useful if it is not possible to include that information into the book.There are several things I would recommend to add to this book. A full description of haxe compiler options because it's not clear how to work with the given examples. More steps how to setup environment for running examples for those who is unfamiliar with described target platform. Also I think that there should be more explanation and some comparisons with other languages to know why one should prefer haxe instead of using them. A fair description of current haXe problems and their possible solutions could enclose a useful chapter. And surely I should mention that book doesn't consider C++ target and has no information about macroses.On the other hand I was glad to get know about templates and SPOD library in haXe and will definitely try to play with them closer. There is a good chapter how to feel comfortable in the community that is very important for haxe beginners.On the whole "haXe 2 Beginner's Guide" in current version is an overview of some haXe possibilities. It could be useful for those who is familiar with OOP concepts and wants to see main features of haxe without a lot of details but with some examples.[...]

haXe 2 Beginner's Guide: Develop exciting applications with this multi-platform programming language

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